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School-Cotton on Feb 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from th...

It kind of is... IQ is normally distributed, and in the normal distribution average == median.

sangnoir on Feb 7, 2016 [–]

Except it isn't - because of sampling biases.

> Take the most average person you know

The average person you know might not be close to population average, depending on the circle of people you know - let's say Stanford post-docs.

brianwawok on Feb 8, 2016 | [–]

* Take the average person from a high school class you took

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